Using Observers and the powerful Request and Response objects from Zend Framework you can. In this example I will show how you can do it.
First you need to create the module, more on module creations here: http://goo.gl/vvT2j.
Create a directory under app/code/community and name it FooBar, then create another directory under FooBar and name it Redirect. Create two directories inside FooBar: etc and Model.
Inside etc create a config.xml file and paste this into it:
Note: For some reason blogger keeps putting all tags in lowercase, foobar_redirect should be FooBar_Redirect.
0.1 FooBar_Redirect_Model singleton fooredirect/observer redirect
Now in the Model directory create the Observer.php file and paste this into it:
class FooBar_Redirect_Model_Observer
{
/**
* @var array
*/
protected $blacklist = array('checkout');
/**
* Takes a request and redirects it a new url based on some params
*/
public function redirect()
{
try
{
//Let's get the Request object
$request = Mage::app()->getRequest();
//We only want to redirect in the frontend and exclude the checkout
$storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
if(!in_array($request->getModuleName(), $this->blacklist) && $storeId != 0)
{
$response = Mage::app()->getResponse();
$uri = $request->getServer("REQUEST_URI"); //requested url
$temp = strtolower($uri); //lowercase version
if(strcmp($uri, $temp) != 0) //if the url are different then redirect
{
/**
* Dont need to do this but let's get fancy here
*/
$parsedUrl = parse_url(Mage::getBaseUrl());
$scheme = $parsedUrl['scheme'];
$host = $parsedUrl['host'];
$path = $parsedUrl['path'];
//build the url
$url = $scheme . '://' . $host . $temp;
/**
* return the response, note the sendHeaders() method
* If you don't add it Magento [Zend_Framework] won't redirect you
*/
return $response->setRedirect($url, 301)->sendHeaders();
}
}
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
Mage::logException($e);
}
}
}
Let's enable this module, create an xml file under app/etc/modules and name it FooBar_Redirect.xml and add this to it: true community
Now just clear Magento's cache and simply visit your site. If you type http://mysite_url.com/UpperUrl you should be redirected to http://mysite_url.com/upperurl.
Now imagine what you can do with this when you have to create a 301 redirect for an entire site, isn't this easier than creating an htacces rule for each url?
